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King Tut Exhibit Outrages Activists
NBC 4 ^
| 4:03 pm PDT June 7, 2005
Posted on 06/08/2005 4:49:47 AM PDT by echoBoomer
King Tut Exhibit Outrages Activists. Critics Want Busts Depicting Tut As White Removed.
LOS ANGELES -- African-American activists criticized the Board of Supervisors Tuesday for allowing a King Tut exhibition at the county Museum of Art, saying that renderings of the boy king as white are inaccurate.
The "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharoahs" exhibit opens a four-city, nationwide tour at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on June 16. Among the installations are three busts of Tut II reconstructed from the boy king's mummified corpse.
All of the busts, fashioned by three groups of researchers, show Tut as a caucasoid North African. That representation led to Tuesday's protest by about a dozen speakers, who asked that the busts be removed from the exhibit.
"There is no evidence that King Tut was white," Compton City Attorney Legrand Clegg told the board. "Egypt is on the continent of Africa."
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To: Stashiu
Ask Chuck Schumer (sp ?), he is the DNC racial hitman now. He calls Janice Rogers Brown a dictator. Daughter of a sharecropper, black single mother, put herself through college, raised a child alone, fairly moderate judge. Sounds like Hitler to me!
Someone needs to put a pop knot on Chucky's head. Buy me a plane ticket to DC and I'll do it.
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posted on
06/08/2005 6:12:55 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Caution. Contents under pressure.)
To: Conspiracy Guy
yeah. But I dont really resemble a Sun, except when I am Sunburned :)
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posted on
06/08/2005 6:16:54 AM PDT
by
MikefromOhio
(10,000 posts by 29 June!!!)
To: MikeinIraq
I'm not bright enough to be called sun.
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posted on
06/08/2005 6:42:19 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
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To: echoBoomer
""There is no evidence that King Tut was white," Compton City Attorney Legrand Clegg told the board. "Egypt is on the continent of Africa.""
Wow, that Legrand Clegg sure has some smarts. Legrand Idiot is more like it. Hasn't he ever noticed that a heck of a lot of people in Africa are not black? And this exhibit is actually based on Tutankhamen's skull, not on PC speculation.
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posted on
06/08/2005 6:44:32 AM PDT
by
AuH2ORepublican
(Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.)
To: Conspiracy Guy
me neither...
but I did sleep at a Holiday Inn last night
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posted on
06/08/2005 6:53:09 AM PDT
by
MikefromOhio
(10,000 posts by 29 June!!!)
To: echoBoomer
The June edition Of
National Geographic has a picture of King Tut on the cover, IMO, they have him a little to dark for the features in the picture.
Within the accompaning article, they clearly state that he is Caucasian.
86
posted on
06/08/2005 6:53:31 AM PDT
by
blam
To: MikeinIraq
Now that I've gone blind, I can't find my Viagra either.
87
posted on
06/08/2005 6:54:51 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
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To: numberonepal
Charlize Theron and Arafat are deeply offended.
To: Conspiracy Guy
LOL!!!
nah I am not there yet...
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posted on
06/08/2005 6:58:24 AM PDT
by
MikefromOhio
(10,000 posts by 29 June!!!)
To: echoBoomer
King Tut As Presented By National Geographic Magazine
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posted on
06/08/2005 7:01:41 AM PDT
by
blam
To: MikeinIraq
I don't need Viagra, I have something stronger. A beautiful loving wife and a healthy libido.
91
posted on
06/08/2005 7:07:25 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
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To: echoBoomer
King Tut - National Geographic Magazine
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posted on
06/08/2005 7:09:52 AM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
93
posted on
06/08/2005 7:27:46 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
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To: Conspiracy Guy
yeah...
I have about 30 years before I will even start to worry too :)
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posted on
06/08/2005 7:30:29 AM PDT
by
MikefromOhio
(10,000 posts by 29 June!!!)
To: Conspiracy Guy
Hasn't anyone ever told him you look cheap when you wear too much eye makeup?? : )
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posted on
06/08/2005 7:37:07 AM PDT
by
Politicalmom
(Just one more reason to hate the government....)
To: MikeinIraq
I'll be 81 in 30 years. Woe is me!
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posted on
06/08/2005 7:37:26 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
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To: echoBoomer
"There is no evidence that King Tut was white," Compton City Attorney Legrand Clegg told the board. "Egypt is on the continent of Africa." Looks white to me ;-)
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posted on
06/08/2005 7:41:49 AM PDT
by
infocats
To: Conspiracy Guy
Click on this link to see who the North African were and when they arrived. This is a DNA study done by Professor Stephan Oppenheimer that shows North Africans arriving from the east.
Journey Of Mankind (The Peopling Of The World)
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06/08/2005 7:42:04 AM PDT
by
blam
To: Conspiracy Guy
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06/08/2005 7:48:58 AM PDT
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MikefromOhio
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To: stylecouncilor
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